Amazon and Whole Foods After a Year: Supermarkets Will See Massive Changes

December 17, 2018 Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes

Did Amazon make a mistake spending all that capital to buy a physical-store retailer? Maybe, but the point of the Whole Foods acquisition didn’t really have to do with the stores. It had to do with selling online.

Instacart, Amazon’s Whole Foods relationship to end next year

December 17, 2018 Uday Sampath Kumar, Reuters

Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods in August 2017 has been a double-edged sword for Instacart, throwing the Whole Foods relationship into doubt while driving rival grocers such as Kroger (KR.N), Aldi and Costco (COST.O) into Instacart’s arms.

C&S Wholesale Grocers to Acquire Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative, Inc., a Premier, Full-Service Food Distributor

December 17, 2018 C&S Wholesale Grocers

Olean Wholesale, a New York cooperative corporation founded in 1922, is a full-service grocery wholesaler with a variety of food products as well as non-food, household, and personal care items. The company services over 270 independent food retail and convenience stores throughout New York, Pennsylvania, and Northeast Ohio.

Empire Company completes purchase of Farm Boy – Ontario’s best-in-class food retailer

December 17, 2018 Empire Company Limited

Empire Company Limited announced that it has completed its purchase of Farm Boy, one of the most exciting, fastest growing and successful food retailers in the country. All closing conditions, including receipt of a no-action letter from the Competition Bureau, have been satisfied.

Emart spends $275M on US Grocery Store Business

December 17, 2018 Korea Joong Ang Daily

Emart announced Friday that it has acquired Good Food Holdings, the California-based holding company of upscale grocery chains Bristol Farms, Lazy Acres Market and Metropolitan Market. Good Food Holdings is Emart’s first foreign acquisition.